Third-year student Alexandria H. “Alex” Clark received the School of Law’s Clinical Legal Education Association Award for Outstanding Externship Student, while third-year student Paige Medley and second-year students Jack K. Mahon and Brianna Yates teamed up to win the Outstanding Clinic Team Award for their work in the school’s First Amendment Clinic.
Appellate Litigation Clinic participant and third-year student Tinsley J. Stokes argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Smith v. Dewberry, a 1983 case where the clinic's client was stabbed two hours after warning prison officials that his eventual attacker had threatened him with a knife. Third-year student Mark L. Bailey helped Stokes prepare for the argument.
Eleven School of Law students will gain global practice experience this summer through the Global Externship Overseas initiative of the school's Dean Rusk International Law Center. They will enhance their legal studies by working for law firms, in-house legal departments and nongovernmental organizations throughout the globe with placements based in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Practice areas include dispute resolution, data privacy, corporate law, refugee law, cultural heritage law, international human rights law and international criminal law.
First-year student Raiden Washington was elected vice chair of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy's Board of Directors. The SSDP has approximately 5,000 active members from schools around the globe. Its members “advocate for a more sensible approach to drug laws.”
The Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic was awarded the 2022 Georgia Crime Victim Service Collaboration and Innovation Award from the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. The honor "recognizes those whose work has been particularly noteworthy, and who exemplify the long-term commitment that characterizes many victim service providers, some of whom are also victims of crime."